CanLit for LittleCanadians: Awards

Thursday, 18 May 2017

This week, the Festival of Trees was held at Toronto's Harbourfront. Over 8000 readers participated in the events at the Festival, which focused on the awards ceremonies for the different Forest of Reading programs of the Ontario Library Association.

Here are this year's readers' choice selections for each reading program:

Blue Spruce

WINNER

The Night Gardener
by Eric Fan and Terry FanSimon & Schuster

Honour Books

Stanley at School

Written by Linda Bailey
Illustrated by Bill Slavin

Kids Can Press

The Good Little Book

Written by Kyo Maclear
Illustrated by Marion Arbona

Tundra Books

Silver Birch EXPRESS

WINNER

The Biggest Poutine in the World

by Andrée PoulinAnnick Press

Honour Books

Myles and the Monster Outside
by Philippa Dowding
Illustrated by Shawn Daigle
Dundurn

Pink is for Blobfish: Discovering the World's Perfectly Pink Animals
by Jess Keating
Illustrated by David DeGrande
A.A. Knopf Books for Young Readers

Monday, 10 April 2017

This new list of reading choices for Manitoba's young readers comes courtesy of the Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Awards (MYRCA) program which annual selects 15 to 18 Canadian novels written in English for young readers in Grades 5-8. Those young people who have read or heard a minimum of 3 nominated titles have been voting for their favourite title since the end of March. Voting ends this week and the winning title and honour books will be announced in May and celebrated at an awards ceremony in the fall.